The #1 trait for top creators who use AI well

The best creators using AI share one trait: curiosity. They experiment constantly, stay patient with new tools, and ask questions instead of assuming they know how things work. Reid Hoffman and David Perell do this well.
All the great people that you've interviewed, like Reid Hoffman, even like top creators like David Perel. What are some common themes in kind of like how they use AI or some things that you learned that are common across these folks? I really think everybody is sort of unique and different in that they all have very specific ways that it fits into their life. I think the sort of commonality is for the people that use it and figure it out. They're generally like pretty patient, curious people who are interested in experimenting and don't have the sort of like knee jerk reaction of like, oh, this didn't work and are like, I'm making an investment and like learning how to use this new tool. And like, it's actually kind of fun. It's really interesting even, even when it fails. And so I think that that sort of spirit of open mindedness and curiosity and exploration is like what allows people to get the most out of tools like this that are incredibly powerful but are also sort of like incredibly early in their life cycle and aren't particularly well understood. So there's not like a set process necessarily for anyone to do any of their work because it's like too new.
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